local-rules

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A559 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-13 Application bad-faith civil-rights inherent-authority local-rules pro-se sanctions Whether federal courts may impose sanctions under their inherent authority without a finding of bad faith when dismissing a pro se prisoner's civil ri…
25-359 Rambod Sotoodeh, et al. v. City of South El-Monte, California, a Municipal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure local-rules merits-consideration motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 Whether Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and 83(a)(1) require a district court to consider the merits of an unopposed Rule 12(b)(6) motion to…
24-7350 Rusty James Driscoll v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery-material fifth-amendment inmate-rights local-rules sixth-amendment Whether District Court of South Dakota's Local Rules 16.1 and 57.10 violate an inmate's constitutional rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments to rece…
24-5675 Lenore Albert v. Roxanne Gonzalez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-suspension district-court legal-practice local-rules rules-enabling-act state-bar Whether a United States District Court can automatically suspend an attorney's membership to practice law based on a State Bar suspension, and whether…
23-1198 Harisadhan Patra, et ux. v. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure first-amendment frcp-56 independent-review local-rules material-facts religious-harassment statement-of-material-facts summary-judgment supreme-court-precedents workplace-discrimination Do the United States Court of Appeals have obligations to enforce FRCP 56 and the Supreme Court's precedents when Statement of Material Facts and supp…
23-1123 In Re Lawyers For Fair Reciprocal Admission 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment judicial-recusal local-court-rules local-rules rules-enabling-act supervisory-power third-circuit Should this Court exercise its supervisory duty over local rules and the administration of justice in the federal courts and assign a hearing panel co…
23A309 Aaron Mohanlal v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete AEDPA habeas-corpus local-rules page-limits pro-se-prisoner section-2254 Whether a federal district court may dismiss a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 with prejudice based on non-compliance with local page li…
23-244 Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admission v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflicts-of-interest due-process free-speech judicial-admission local-rules nonuniform-standards professional-speech standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Has the Petitioner established good cause for this Court to issue a writ of certiorari before judgment because the nonuniform local rules directly con…
22-1182 Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringes on the Fourteenth Amendment
21-875 Harry Barnett v. Menard, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-power local-rule local-rules procedural-authority separation-of-powers Whether a district judge has the power to enact a local rule that contravenes the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?
21-507 Lawyers United Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-06 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2071 28-usc-2072 attorney-licensing bar-association constitutional-rights district-court district-court-licensing judicial-council local-rules rule-making-authority Whether local rules that create classes of citizens and lawyers exceed the rule-making authority of the United States District Courts
21-205 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act administrative-record default-judgment department-of-labor frap-17 local-rules res-judicata sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an unopposed default judgement be granted because the Department of Labor did not submit the full administrative record to the court as require…
20-7466 Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-costs civil-procedure cost-waiver costs court-discretion deposition-costs indigency local-rules waiver Whether a party waives costs if it does not file a bill of cost on time pursuant to local rules?
20-1075 John Robert Reichard, et ux. v. Russell A. Brown, Chapter 13 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-13-bankruptcy due-process federal-statutory-interpretation local-rules privacy privacy-protection tax-return-confidentiality tax-returns Whether the privacy protections due Chapter 13 bankruptcy debtors' income tax returns can be denied by a local rule of bankruptcy procedure
19-1005 Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure article-iii-standing circuit-precedent en-banc-review federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure intra-circuit-splits jurisdictional-dismissal local-appellate-rules local-rules motions-panel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's local rules for en banc review violate FED. R. APP. P. 47(a)(1) by allowing a three-judge motions panel to deny en banc re…
19-478 Amadou Sowe v. Pall Corporation Second Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1746 affidavit affidavit-substitution age-discrimination civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure local-rule-violation local-rules owbpa perjury-statute summary-judgment sworn-declaration unsworn-declaration Whether plaintiff's counter statement sworn under 28 U.S.C. § 1746 can be used to show lack of compliance with OWBPA statute despite local rule violat…
19-6197 Donald Steven Reynolds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motions circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction local-rule-interpretation local-rules motion-to-strike page-limits statutory-interpretation Is the Sixth Circuit's holding in-Martinez v. United States, that the 25 page limit under Local Rule 7.1 applies to §2255 Motions, inconsistant with R…
19-5399 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP cestui-que civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal dismissals federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure local-procedural-rules local-rules pendent-jurisdiction standing Whether the Court will provide for further questioning upon Fed. R. App. P. 27, L.R. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Ope…
19-5398 Steven Talbert Williams v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-claims court-of-appeals dismissal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure internal-operating-procedures jurisdiction jurisdictional-claims local-rules pendent-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing Will the Court provide for questioning upon Fed. R. App. P. 27, L.R. 27(d), (g), (i) and L.R. 40.2 of the Local Rules and Internal Operating Procedure…
18-6601 Stefone Dwayne Palomo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-review appeal appeal-rights appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit-rules frivolous frivolous-issues ineffective-assistance local-rules merits right-to-appeal sua-sponte-dismissal Does Petitioner's right to an appeal require either a decision on the merits or an Anders review with a finding that all issues are frivolous?
18-5039 Guy Kevin Rowland v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-procedure good-faith habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition local-rules state-court statute-of-limitations Does the AEDPA apply where Petitioner's attorneys relied in good faith on the federal district court's local rules